The Synod on Synodality has concluded, and the journey continues. Join the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, key ecclesial leaders, and other partners in mission who are committed to building a synodal Church. We invite you to participate in exploring the transformative power of synodality and prepare for the vital work ahead of remodeling the Church. Everyone is welcome. Your seat at the table is here.

Please RSVP for the event here.

Join us at the Santa Clara University Mission Campus as we:

• Explore the vibrant hope of synodality: Learn about its transformative power within local ecclesial contexts around the world and discern your place of action in mission at home.
• Engage in meaningful conversations: Share your perspectives and listen to others at the roundtable using the Conversations in the Spirit model.
• Hear from esteemed leaders: Join a conversation with Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the General Secretariat of the Synod, and other key figures.
• Experience a community of prayer and fellowship: Come together at the table for Eucharistic liturgy and shared meals.

The Rev. Francis L. Markey Women in Ministry Speaker Series presents “A Journey of Faith and Ministry from the African Bush to the Bars and Brothels of the City” with poet, theologian, artist, writer, missionary, and minister, Edwina Gateley. This event will take place at SCU, but JST will also livestream the presentation in Manresa.

Join the Ignatian Center’s Bannan Forum for a conversation with Diana Walsh Pasulka, Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. A public reception will follow the lecture.

Join the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education for a day-long retreat with Sarita Tamayo-Moraga and Fr. Rob Scholla, S.J.

Join the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education for a workshop on teaching, the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, and contemporary higher education with Fr. Jose Mesa, S.J., the Ignatian Pedagogy Faculty Fellow at Loyola University Chicago.

Drawing on her personal experience with family addiction and caring for elderly and dying parents, and her expertise as a thought leader in end of life medicine, bestselling author Katy Butler will share her thoughts on healing pain, making meaning, and addressing addiction near the end of life. 

Based on conversations and interviews from the South Bronx housing projects courtyards, Refugee Safe Houses on the Northern Border with Canada, and travels along the Southwestern Border and into Mexico. Eleven monologues of people who live on or across borders both geographic and cultural, an intimate, raw, poignant, funny look at the borders we all negotiate in our everyday lives. View the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnjxaACgLjU

Join the Ignatian Center's Bannan Forum for a panel discussion on spirituality, business leadership and Jesuit education.

The GTU community will celebrate the inauguration of Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann as the Eighth President of the Graduate Theological Union. Those wishing to attend must register here by Monday, September 30. A reception will follow.

To celebrate the release of the CARe Center's exhibition catalog, Beyond Words: Art Inspired by Sacred Texts, three of the artists whose work is featured in the exhibition will be hold a panel discussion. Come meet the artists in person and hear more about their artistic processes.

Moshe Taube is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University, where he taught in the departments of Linguistics and of German, Russian and East European Studies. Please join us for the first of three lectures given by Moshe Taube in this year's Taubman Lecture Series.

Speakers will explore themes including but not limited to: innovation and creativity within established traditions; authority and authenticity in new religions, appropriation as a transcultural practice and its criticisms; the encounter between new religions and science; and new religions in the post secular age.

Moshe Taube is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University, where he taught in the departments of Linguistics and of German, Russian and East European Studies. Please join us for the second of three lectures given by Moshe Taube in this year's Taubman Lecture Series.

Roslyn Sholin, creative director, budding archivist, historian and curator, describes what happened when she inherited a house that had been in her family for 80 years. As she examines how family history and world history are inextricably linked, and how objects can enrich a storytelling tradition, she invites participants to consider their own family artifacts. This is an informal presentation, so please bring your sack lunch. Free and open to the public. 

The CLGS Jewish Roundtable is hosting the first-ever gathering for adults who were raised in Jewish and queer families and communities.  Over forty young adults ranging in age from eighteen to late thirties will attend the weekend retreat, 2-3 November 2019 on the PSR Campus.

Moshe Taube is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University, where he taught in the departments of Linguistics and of German, Russian and East European Studies. Please join us for the second of three lectures given by Moshe Taube in this year's Taubman Lecture Series.

Aharon Tavger, senior staff member in the Tel Burna Archaeological Project, will present a new archaeological study which contains an historical-geographical analysis of the sources that speak on Bethel, and a new archaeological excavation that may have solved the question of the location of the sanctuary. Lunch provided.

The GTU Women’s Studies in Religion program is hosting a series that will involve art-making and discussion, led by skilled facilitator, Karen Sjoholm. No art experience/skill whatsoever required! The focus is on finding balance in our busy lives and forming community with other students. This series is co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts & Religion. All are welcome, regardless of gender identity or expression. To RSVP, write to wsr@ses.gtu.edu.

All are invited to join this Town Hall Meeting on the topic of "Religious Pluralism at the GTU". Professor Arthur Holder will moderate the discussion. Pizza and drinks will be provided. For more details, please contact Chai Motupalli, Director of Student Life, at cmotupalli@gtu.edu.

Dr. Munir Jiwa of the GTU and CIS will prvoide the 44th Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture on the topic, "Liberal Inclusion or Liberal Conversion? Islamophilia, Islamophobia, and Islamic Studies in Interreligious Contexts". Public reception immediately following the lecture will be held in the Badè Museum (directly across the courtyard).

Judith Carney, Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, will discuss how slaves introduced foods previously grown in Africa to the Americas. She draws attention to the significance of Africa’s food crops as a crucial underpinning of the transatlantic commerce in human beings, the slave ship as a means of conveying African crops to the Americas, and the enslaved as active participants in establishing African foodstaples on their subsistence plots and in the foodways of former plantation societies.

Weekend Retreat facilitated by Timothy Locke and Sonya Milton.Focus: how might we think in a new way about including ourselves and others as children of God?

$275 for meals and double occupancy lodging with shared bath. Discount of $25 for registrations received by Oct. 29. Need-based financial assistance is available.

UCB Professor of American History & Citizenship, Waldo E. Martin, Jr. will examine why and how twentieth-century African American freedom struggles proved essential to the making of the modern African American Freedom Movement. Second, this lecture will examine the centrality of the modern African American Freedom Movement to both the creation of the modern United States and the development of the modern world.